Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-05-27
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

A Unitarian society has been Or
ganized at Spokane Falls, with Rev.
E. NJ. Wheelock, of Boston, as pastor.
Robert Scott has begun the manu-
facture of brooms in North Yakima
from corn he raised himself. That is
an industry that ought to be success
full.
The territory comprising Stevens
county covers about 10000 square
miles and extends from the Cascades
I ON the west to the Idaho line on the
east.
The arrivals of insane patients at
Steilacoom have during the past month
averaged one per day. At this rate
another building will soon be neces-
sary.
The Columbia river is much higher
than usual at this season of the year.
But it is feared that it will be fully as
high as it was in 1876, if not higher,
next month.
A paper mill is to be established at
Spokane Falls, with capital stock of
$4,000. Straw, board and wrapping
will be made, also pals and house
hold utensils.
The Northern Pacific is building q
large wharf at Kelso, so as to land
there with steamboats,, in case the
water is too high to run the transfer
boat at Kalama.
Superintendent Buckley says that
the Northern Pacific has reports from
Eastern Washington represented the
yield of wheat there this season at
$4,000 to 100000 tons.
A railroad company has been Or
ganized at Vancouver, called the
Kiickitat and Yakima railroad COM
pany. 1t is said to be in the interest
of the Northern Pacific.
Walla business men have voted to
raise SIS, 900 and present it to the first
company that shall bring a competing
line to that point, and $4,000 of the
amount has been subscribed.
The Communistic Colony at Port
Angeles, at the entrance to Puget
Sound, now numbers $50 persons.
They own 1900 acres of land, and ex-
pect to build and operate q saw mill
soon. Unlike other successful colonies
they profess no religious basis and cast
aside creed. Its existence will be
watched with interest.
An officer of the Lake Shore &
Eastern Railroad reports finding q
wild woman in the woods near Seattle.
She showed her glistening teeth, and
faunted her long, uncombed hair in
the face of the railroad man. 1t is
probable that her insanity was caused
by endeavoring to locate few of the
paper railroads diverging from Seattle.
At Centralia, last week, at q
meeting of the Olympia district min
isterial association of the N. E. church,
the following was unanimously voted
for: In view of the M. E. University
enterprise at Tacoma, the board of
trustees are requested to stay further
proceedings at Port Townsend until
the session Of the annual conference
to be held in Olympia in August.
The steamship willamette, Capt.
Holmes, belonging to the Oregon Inn
provement Company, which for the
past six months has been running
South from San Francisco, under
charter by the Pacific Mail Company,
is soon to resume her route between
Seattle and San Francisco in the coal
carrying trade. Her upper-works
have been painted white and she pre-
sents quite different appearance
from what she did when she left the
Sound trade.
Andrew Flett, the twenty year old
son of John Flett who lives near
Leach's mill, Pierce county, was out
horseback riding on Sunday afternoon.
He attempted to cross Chambers
creek at its mouth where the tide was
half high. BY some means in swim
ming his horse across the creek from
north to the south side, he fell from
the animal and was drowned. The
body of the deceased was picked up
Monday morning about 8 o'clock by
some of his friends.
Mrs. Saunders, of Ellensburg, has
bonanza in chickens, according to
the NeW Era, which says: She has
1850 young spring chickens. During
the cold weather she lost $50, which
would make the whole number 1900.
She will make this year from chickens
and eggs about $1,000. If a woman
can do this and attend to multitude
of household duties, come to town two
or three times q week and attend to a
great deal of her husbands business,
why cannot hundreds of farmers in
this country make money from the
sale of chickens ?"
The true Goldfish were caught in
large numbers in Port Discovery bay
last April. Between the 17th of that
month and the lst of May 2,OS2 fish
were caught. About the latter date
the southeast winds set in and fishing.
was abandoned by the Indians. The
average weight of the catch was Al
pounds. Mr.. Swan, Fish Commits